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With Penny Gore, including
Delius Air and Dance for Strings London Philharmonic, conductor Vernon Handley
7.10 Haydn PianoTrio in G (Gypsy Rondo) London Fortepiano Trio
7.30 Roussel Symphony No 3 in G minor French National Orchestra, conductor Leonard Bernstein
8.10 Respighi Ancient Airs and Dances
(Suite No 2) Boston Symphony Orchestra, conductor Seiji Ozawa
8.35Smetana Three Poet Polkas, Op 8 Andras Schiff (piano)

Contributors

Conductor:
Vernon Handley
Conductor:
Haydn Pianotrio
Conductor:
Leonard Bernstein
Conductor:
Seiji Ozawa

With Donald Macleod.
4: Scandinavia and America
The Scandinavian sagas were Percy's favourite stories as a child and the blue-eyed Nordic race became his ideal. When war broke out, he and his mother emigrated to America, where he joined a miltaryband.
Norwegian Polka (Scandinavian Suite)
Stephen Orton (cello), Hamish Milne (piano) Jutish Medley Penelope Thwaites, Wayne Marshall and John Lavender
(piano, six hands)
Faroe Island Song: Father and Daughter
Danish National Radio Choir and Orchestra, conductor Jes per Grove Jorgensen
The Power of Rome and the Christian Heart
Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra, conductor Timothy Reynish Ramble on Love - from themes from
Strauss's "DerRosenkavalier"
Marc-Andre Hamelin (piano)
Spoon RiverUlster Orchestra, conductor Kenneth Montgomery
Random Round Susan Gritton and Pamela Helen Stephen (sopranos), MarkPadmore (tenor), City of London Sinfonia, conductor Richard Hickox

Contributors

Unknown:
Donald MacLeod.
Cello:
Stephen Orton
Cello:
Hamish Milne
Unknown:
Wayne Marshall
Piano:
John Lavender
Conductor:
Timothy Reynish
Piano:
Marc-Andre Hamelin
Piano:
Pamela Helen Stephen
Conductor:
Richard Hickox

With Stephanie Hughes. Bax Festival Overture
London Philharmonic, conductor Bryden Thompson
10.22 Schubert Moments Musicaux, D780 Wilhelm Backhaus (piano)
10.45 Rameau Le Temple de la Gloire (excerpts) Philharmonia Baroque
Orchestra, conductor Nicholas McGegan
11.08 Ravel Daphnis and Chloe (Suite No 2) Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Lorin Maazel

Contributors

Unknown:
Stephanie Hughes.
Conductor:
Bryden Thompson
Piano:
Wilhelm Backhaus
Conductor:
Nicholas McGegan
Conductor:
Ravel Daphnis
Conductor:
Lorin Maazel

In today's programme from this year's Verbier Festival and Academy in Switzerland, Helen Wallace listens to some of the 20th-century music performed at the festival and to Swedish guitarist Goran Sollscher 's performance of Bach's fourth cello suite aranged for guitar. Bach Cello Suite No 4 in E flat, BWV1010 (arr for guitar) Goran Sollscher Schnhttke Piano Quintet GaryGraffman (piano),
Soovin Kim and Hilary Hahn (violins), Paul Neubauer (viola), Gary Hoffman (cello)
Shostakovich Viola Sonata, Op 147 Yuri Bashmet , Xenia Bashmet (piano)

Contributors

Unknown:
Helen Wallace
Guitarist:
Goran Sollscher
Piano:
Soovin Kim
Piano:
Hilary Hahn
Viola:
Paul Neubauer
Cello:
Gary Hoffman
Unknown:
Yuri Bashmet
Piano:
Xenia Bashmet

Chamber Music from Manchester
A concert given earlier this month in the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, by the young Polish pianist Peter Jablonski. Szymanowski Don Juan Serenade (Masques, Op 34)
Debussy La Cathédrale Engloutie; Ce Qu 'A Vu le Vent du Ouest; Canope; Feux d 'Artifice Prokofiev Sonata No 7, Op 83

Contributors

Pianist:
Peter Jablonski. Szymanowski
Pianist:
Don Juan Serenade

BBC Philharmonic
Brahms Academic Festival Overture Conductor Tadaaki Otaka
Tchaikovsky Fantasy Overture: Romeo and JulietConductor Edward Downes
Sibelius Finlandia ; Swan ofTuonela
(Lenninkainen Legends); Symphony No 5 Conductor Tadaaki Otaka

Contributors

Conductor:
Tadaaki Otaka
Unknown:
Edward Downes
Unknown:
Sibelius Finlandia
Conductor:
Tadaaki Otaka

After more than ten years the Australian pianist Leslie Howard has reached the end of his mammoth task recording the complete solo piano music of Franz Liszt. He talks to Piers Lane specifically about Liszt's original piano music and reflects on how the composer constantly reworked his music.

Liszt Un Sospiro (with cadenza and revised coda); Twelve Grand Studies No 10 in F minor (first version of Transcendental Studies); Litanie de Marie (Harmonies Poetiques et Religieuses, 1847 version); Carousel de Madame P-N; Valse Oubliee No 4; Rhapsody No 20 in G minor (Rumanian)

Contributors

Interviewer:
Piers Lane
Pianist/Interviewee:
Leslie Howard
Producer:
Chris Wines

Humphrey Carpentertalks to soprano Kyra Vayne as her autobiography is published. Music in the programme includes at 5.00 Dvorak's Carnival Overture played by the Cleveland Orchestra under George Szell , at
5.35Janacek's Taras Bulba Suite conducted by Charles Mackerras , and at
6.35 Dohnanyi's Variations on a Nursery Theme, Op 25 conducted by the composer's son Christoph von Dohnanyi.

Contributors

Unknown:
Humphrey Carpentertalks
Soprano:
Kyra Vayne
Unknown:
George Szell
Conducted By:
Charles MacKerras
Unknown:
Christoph von Dohnanyi.

SteelandGold
The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and its chief conductor Osmo Vanska return to Glasgow's City Hall for a complete cycle of Rachmaninov's symphonies. Presented by Kirsteen McCue in conversation with Gerard McBurney. Mikhail Rudy (piano)
Rachmaninov The Isle of the Dead; Piano Concerto No 1; Symphony No
The next programme in this series is on 1 November

Contributors

Conductor:
Osmo Vanska
Presented By:
Kirsteen McCue
Unknown:
Gerard McBurney.
Piano:
Mikhail Rudy

Patrick Wright investigates the extraordinary Renaissance story
Hypnerotomachia Poliphili. Read by every intellectual of its day, though presumed to be written byafriar of rather dubious reputation, this pagan, pedantic and allegorical tale became a primary source for ideas on architecture and gardens.

Contributors

Unknown:
Patrick Wright
Unknown:
HypnerotomacHia Poliphili.

With Susan Sharpe.
12.05am Brahms Two Motets, Op 29
12.20 Hugo Affven Swedish Rhapsody No 1, Op 19 (Midsummer Vigil) 12.35 Abel Bute Sonata No 6 in G 12.45 Charles Avison
Concerto Grosso No 2 in G 1.00
Kresimir Baranovic Suite: Gingerbread Ballet
Franco Parac Suite: Carmina Krleziana Krsto Odak Adriatic Symphony, Op 36
2.10 Satie Trois Petites Pièces Montees
2.20 Kraus Symphony in C minor
(Symphonie Funebre) 2.45 Tchaikovsky Piano Sonata in G 3.15 Ernest Pingoud
Prologue, Op 4 3.25 Reger Motet: AchHerr, Strafe Mich Nicht3.40 Schubert Overture in the Italian Style in C 3.55 Martinu Clarinet Sonatina 4.05 Busoni Suite No 2 for orchestra 4.45 Handel Suite in G, HWV350 (Water Music) 5.00 Pieter Hellendaal
Concerto Grosso in E flat, Op 3 No 4 5.20 Janacek Piano Sonata 1.X.1905 in E flat minor (From the Street) 5.30 Mozart Horn Concerto No 4 in E flat, K495 5.50 Faur6 Nocturne in C sharp minor, Op 74

Contributors

Unknown:
Susan Sharpe.
Unknown:
Charles Avison
Unknown:
Kresimir Baranovic
Unknown:
Strafe Mich
Music:
Pieter Hellendaal

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